GIBSON, FENDER, AND THE BLUES

[Old Music Guy]

SCENE: Open blues jam. Two songs. You have a Les Paul, a 335, a Strat and a Tele. Amp of your choice. One stomp of your choice.
Jam 1 is a medium tempo Major shuffle. Jam 2 is a slow Minor 12 bar.
For each: Which guitar would you grab? What amp would you use? And your one stomp for each?
No fighting

 

[RFR]

Strat, tweed vibrolux, king of tone OD pedal. That should cover all bases for me.

 

[TalismanRich]

I've kinda been there before....

Give me the 335, Princeton Reverb and a tube screamer.

 

[Track Rat]

I have all of these. In a live setting, the Strat. It covers a lot of tonal ground and IT STAYS IN TUNE. In all fairness, the 335 stays in tune but thats mine

 

[Old Music Guy]

I have all of these. In a live setting, the Strat. It covers a lot of tonal ground and IT STAYS IN TUNE. In all fairness, the 335 stays in tune but thats mine

Me, too. I put lockers on

 

[Old Music Guy]

I was jamming with my friends yesterday afternoon. As I thought, when I posted this "hypothetical" that there is no real answer. You can have a '59 'Burst, '61 Strat, or a Silvertone from a Sears catalogue. The joy is in the music.

 

[noah330]

Open blooze jam?

This must be a trick question - I trade the guitar for a gun and the amp for a bullet and kill myself, only to find I'm already dead and stuck in one of Dante's circles of hell!

Any of those would work fine. Any amp would as well.

 

[DM60]

The question is pretty funny. The guitar is irrelevant to the song. It is whatever you have, that will do. The old guys made what they had work.

 

[Papanate]

SCENE: Open blues jam. Two songs. You have a Les Paul, a 335, a Strat and a Tele. Amp of your choice. One stomp of your choice.
Jam 1 is a medium tempo Major shuffle. Jam 2 is a slow Minor 12 bar.
For each: Which guitar would you grab? What amp would you use? And your one stomp for each?
No fighting

I grab whatever I feel like at the moment - they are just different pallets to paint with - not different paint.